Review: Pretty and Polished Freedom Calling

I'm not American nor do I live there so I see no problem posting a red, white and blue polish with a name like Freedom Calling on June 25th. In fact, it's the same colours as the Australian flag so to hell with it, yay Australian nails! Let's take a look at one of Pretty & Polished's new colours, Freedom Calling. Don't faint, you can actually sometimes buy this one!

Freedom Calling is a mixture of red, white, blue and silver glitter in a clear base. You've got all kinds of glitter in there - bar, hex, matte, shiny, all without the micro glitter which I love. I didn't, however, love the application. It's almost impossible to get the glitter out the bottle. I had this sitting upside down for an hour and still, nothing but big clomps of base came out. I'd have liked more glitter on each of my nails but one coat was all I could do as it was so thick already. Even then, the glitter didn't even a bit sit flat. I'm used to rougher nails but even the hex glitter didn't sit properly. PITA. At least my base colour went well for once. Chanel Blue Satin, if you were wondering.

The Verdict: Love the glitter combo, hate the application. I'm getting stressed out just looking at these pictures again as I can see an entire nail without a large piece of glitter on it, and can see the glitter sticking up. Sigh. Shame it's so pretty.

Where to Buy:

Chanel Blue Satin, $22, department stores
Pretty & Polished, Freedom Calling, $8.50 + postage, Etsy

Review: Nicole by OPI A Million Sparkles is Accurately Named

It's amazing what you can find when you wander around at night. My favourite time to go shopping is ridiculously late and I'm extra happy when it pays off. I've been looking for Nicole by OPI A Million Sparkles for a while now at that couldn't be more up my alley if it tried. I finally managed to find it in a Shoppers last night and it really does live up to its name. A Million Sparkles is a predominately blue glitter that has an amazing ability to look like a foil after a couple of coats. Combine that with gold, silver and pink bar glitter and you have a winner. It's seriously so sparkly I got distracted from what I was saying at lunch today. Application is decent but you really need four coats to get completely opaque coverage. That's ok, glitter dries fast. It's a little rough too but nothing Seche Vite can't fix. The Verdict: Yay glitter! If, like me, you like sparklies to the point where it's the big...

Review: Sephora X Outburst

As you can imagine, I was pretty excited when the new Sephora X polishes came out. Not only were there a million of them, but I could go see them in person, circling the huge stand and singling out my prey. I'm not the most happy that the good ones are FIFTEEN dollars each but what am I going to do, not buy any?? That's silly. I have few now but my favourite so far as to be the incredibly Outburst. LOOK AT IT:

MOAR FLOWERS, NOW SPARKLY

Ok! So you may be feeling a sense of deja vu but WHO CARES SPARKLIES. I actually did this flower mani before the neon one - I held the the neon glitter under my blacklight and there was no way I could not immediately apply it to my nails. Running The Sparkly Shop just continues to have perks... And yes, I do have a blacklight bulb that handy. Anyway, this glitter is just as amazing as the neon, it's RIDICULOUSLY sparkly. Same thinness, nice and easy to work with. Let's take a look, shall we?

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